1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458512903321

Titolo

Muslim women in war and crisis [[electronic resource] ] : representation and reality / / edited by Faegheh Shirazi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2010

ISBN

0-292-79282-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ShiraziFaegheh <1952->

Disciplina

305.4869709045

Soggetti

Muslim women - Press coverage

Muslim women - Social conditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Note from the Editor: Transliteration and Key Terms""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One. Central and South Asia""; ""One. Indonesia. The Peace Brokers: Women of Aceh and Ambon""; ""Two. India. Nation and Selfhood: Memoirs of Bengali Muslim Women""; ""Three. Afghanistan. From Refugee Camp to Kabul: The Influence of Exile on Afghan Women""; ""Four. Afghanistan. Gendered Aid Interventions and Afghan Women: Images versus Realities""; ""Five. Chechnya. ""Black Widows"" in the New York Times: Images of Chechen Women Rebels""; ""Part Two. The Middle East and North Africa""

""Six. Iran. The Islamic Republic of Iran and Women's Images: Masters of Exploitation""""Seven. Iraq. Widows' Doomsday: Women and War in the Poetry of Hassan al-Nassar""; ""Eight. Iraq. Images and Status: Visualizing Iraqi Women""; ""Nine. Lebanon. In Search of Identity: Hijab Recollections from West Beirut""; ""Ten. Lebanon. Leadership of Lebanese Women in the Cedar Revolution""; ""Eleven. Tunisia and Algeria. Images of Manipulation: Subversion of Women's Rights in the Maghreb""; ""Part Three. Europe and the United States""

""Twelve. Former Yugoslavia. Images of Women in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Neighboring Countries, 1992-1995""""Thirteen. Spain. Muslim Women in the Spanish Press: The Persistence of Subaltern Images""; ""Fourteen. Great Britain. The 7/7 London Bombings and British Muslim Women: Media Representations, Mediated Realities""; ""Fifteen. United



States. Images of Muslim Women in Post-9/11 America""; ""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996392168403316

Autore

Rosse William

Titolo

Papers from Scotland of transactions of the Scots Commissioners [[electronic resource] ] : concerning the King and the Parliament of England. Delivered at the convention of estates at Edinburgh. Also a conference by the Marquis of Arguile, the Earle Louderdaile, and the Lord Lothean, with the English Commissioners. And the proceedings of the Grand Committee of Estates, and the Commissioners of the Kirk of Scotland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Printed at London, : by Robert Ibbitson in Smithfield, neere the Queens-head Tavern, 1648. Feb. 23 : Imprimatur, Gilb. Mabbot

Descrizione fisica

[2], 6 p

Soggetti

Scotland Foreign relations England Early works to 1800

England Foreign relations Scotland Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Signed at end: Wil. Rosse.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "1647"; the 8 in imprint date is crossed out.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996393631503316

Autore

Monipennie John

Titolo

The abridgement or summarie of the Scots chronicles [[electronic resource] ] : with a short description of their originall from the comming of Gathelus their first progenitor out of Græcia into Egypt. And their comming into Portingall and Spaine, and of their kings and gouernours in Spaine, Ireland and Albion, now called Scotland, (howbeit the whole number are not extant) with a true chronologie of all their kings. Their reignes, deaths and burials, from Fergusius the first king of Scotland, vntill his Royall Maiestie, now happily raigning ouer all Great Brittaine and Ireland, and all the isles to them appertaining. With a true description and diuision of the whole realme of Scotland, and of the principall citties, townes, abbies, fortes, castles, towers and riuers, and of the commodities in euery part thereof, and of the isles in generall. / / By Iohn Monnipennie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London], : Printed at Brittaines Bursse by Iohn Budge., 1612

Descrizione fisica

[4], 100,  p

Soggetti

Nobility - Scotland

Scotland Kings and rulers Early works to 1800

Scotland Description and travel Early works to 1800

Scotland History Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Headpieces, initials.

Imperfect: print bleeding and show-through.

Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0097



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154915203321

Autore

Acton Vanessa

Titolo

Backfire / / Vanessa Acton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : Darby Creek, , 2017

ISBN

1-5124-3503-1

1-5124-2782-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Day of disaster

Disciplina

[Fic]

Soggetti

Wildfires

Fires

Survival

Nevada Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"A wildfire threatens to obliterate everything in a boy's town. All he knows might be lost. Will he make it out in time? And will his home survive the blaze?"--